Volume 43, Number 14 · September 19, 1996
Getting Things Right
By Brad Leithauser
New and Selected Poems
by Donald Justice
Knopf, 176 pp., $25.00
Strange Relation
by Daniel Hall
Penguin Books, 68 pp., $13.95 (paper)
We're evidently approaching a time when concordances—those volumes that list and locate every word a writer ever employed—will be obtainable for most poets. Traditionally, such volumes have been reserved for the titans—Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton. But with more and more texts available, alternatively if not exclusively, on computer, we can envision a future where the tools of the concordance, enhanced by electronic flexibility, will be democratically extended to a multitude of writers.
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